Claiming Rewards
When a pool you have delegated to produces blocks, it earns rewards. After the operator takes its commission, the rest is credited to the delegators in proportion to their stake. Your share lands in your position’s claimable rewards balance, which you can withdraw to your spendable ANM at any time.
How rewards accrue
Every time the pool’s validator proposes a block, the delegator portion of that reward is added to the pool’s reward escrow and your position’s claimable balance grows accordingly. Two things make this balance special:
- It is separate from your principal. Rewards are never added back into your staked stake unless you choose to claim and then re-delegate them. They do not need to be unbonded.
- It is slash-immune. The reward escrow lives outside the pool’s stake, so a penalty against the validator can reduce your staked principal but can never reduce rewards you have already earned.
Rewards are not auto-compounded — they wait in your claimable balance until you claim them.
Claiming, step by step
- Open your wallet and go to Staking → My Delegations.
- Find the position you want to claim from. Its claimable rewards are shown next to your principal.
- Choose Claim. The wallet builds and signs a Claim Reward transaction (type 11) and broadcasts it.
- Once committed, the claimed amount moves from the reward escrow into your spendable ANM balance.
There is no unbonding delay on rewards — a claim is available at any time, including while your principal is still staked. You only need a small amount of ANM for the transaction fee.
Re-delegating (manual compounding)
Because rewards are paid to your spendable balance, compounding is a deliberate, two-step choice: claim your rewards, then delegate them back into a pool. This keeps your earned rewards under your control and out of harm’s way until you decide what to do with them.